Huntsville gazette., 1887-09-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

siderable apprehension was awakened.
1T is charged that conspiracy exists at
Washington among Republican clerks to
so bungle their reports that discredit will
be cast upon the work of the present ad-
ministration.
AT the close of the week ended the 9th
the Detroit and st. Louis base ball clubs
held their respective places at the head of
the League and Association, both having
made gain on the week
GENERAL LAwToN, United States Minis
ter to Austria Hungary, presented his
credentials to the Emperor Francis Joseph
on the 9th, at Vienna.
1T is believed in London that Ayoub
Khan's escape from Persia was the result
of Russian conspiracy.
THE firm of Dresbach & Rosenfeld, of
San Francisco, failed on the 9th, and pre-
cipitated another crisis in grain circles.
A GREAT home missionary revival has
been inaugurated in England under the
auspices Of the Methodist denomination.
IT is generally believed that DIR. Parker's
visit to this country to deliver the eulogy
on the late Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
will also be used to determine the Plymouth
congregation on the matter of calling him
to the vacant pulpit.
THE Montreal (Can.) Herald building
was burned out ON the morning of the
9th, for the second time in five years;
loss, $125,O00.
JOHN j.. SCULLY, late infrmary director
at Cincinnati, who was indicted with
others for the misapplication of public
funds, and who has been fugitive ever
since, has returned and surrendered.
GENERAL CROOK received orders from
the President on the 9th to proceed to
Garfield County, Col, to join Governor
Adams in conference with Colorow, with
a view of inducing the latter to return
peaceably to his reservation.
THE Controller of the Currency has au-
thorized the Tazewell County Qll.) Ma
tional Bank to begin business. 1t is To-
Gated at Delaware, in that county; capital,
$40, ,00O.
MISS SUSIE WRIGHT, the belle of Henrico
County, Va, eloped on the 9th with
Thomas Noble, of Richmond. They went
to Washington, where they were marie d
and then continued on to New York.
Ex-STATE AUDITOR JOHN A. ELLIOTT, of
Iowa, died at Des Moines on the 9th. He
leaves large estate.
ENGINEER GURNEE, who ran a passenger
train on the Atlantic & Pacific railroad,
while oiling his engine at Flagstaff, Ariz.,
on the 9th, fell back dead, supposedly
from paralysis Of the brain.
THE prevailing sentiment in Canada is
that Sir John Macdonald is about at his
wit's-end to patch up a settlement of the
Manitoba railroad trouble without loss of
personal prestige or provoking open hos
tilities on the part of the people.
A COMMITTEE from Detroit, Mich,, waited
on the President at the White House on the
9th and rendered an invitation for the
President and party to visit their city.
The programme having been arranged
they got little comfort beyond pleasant
words.
Rev. MOSES ROGERS, direct descend
ant of John Rogers, the English martyr,
who was burned at the stake, died in Suf-
folk County, N. Y, few days since in the
ninety-fourth year of his age. He had
been preaching about seventy years.
REV. DIR. PARKER, of the City Temple,
London, landed in New York on the 2Sth.
JAMES w. FIsKE, Republican politician
of Maryland, has been exposed as blga-
mist and is now a fugitive en- route to South
America.
EIGHT men, all members of Engine Co.
No. 2, of Plainfield, N. j., were arrested in
that city on the 2Sth ON a charge of arson.
One of them, George Jackson, confessed
that they had set fire to number of places
by using kerosene.
PRINCE FERDINAND reviewed 5000
of Bulgarian troops on the 2Sth. There
was great enthusiasm, and the prince was
received with loud acclamations by the
people.
THE extensive bridge-works of Morse
Bros, at Haselton, suburb of YoungS-
town, O., were totally destroyed by fire
at an early hour on the morning OF the
2Sth. The works were running night and
day, employing three hundred men. All
the machinery, tools and stock on hand
were DESTROYED The loss is estimated at
100000, with an insurance of $4,000.
A PASSENGER train on the West Shore
railroad collided with freight train near
Port Byron, N. Y, on the 2Sth. The ex-
press messenger was killed, and Engl-
neers Miller, of the passenger train, and
Ludwig, of the freight train, were in
jured.
THE steamships Umbria and Servia,
which arrived in New York on the 2Sth,
brought a large number of delegates to the
international medical congress. to convene
in Washington next week.
LIEUTENANT WEBER'S court-martlal
opened at Washington on the 29th.
THREE jockeys were terribly hurt In
collision on the Saratoga IN. Y.) race
track on the 29th.
THE Government is trying to enforce set
Elements with a large number OF delln-
ouent army paymasters.
THOMAS G. KNOTT was arrested at
New Albany, Ind. ,on the 29th, charged with
dealing in counterfeit mony.
MRS. Boris, of Chadron, Neb., fatally
shot two men named Axman and Rogers,
on the night of the 2Sth, who insisted on
entering her house.
THERE is serious talk in Virginia OF I'M
peachment proceedings against Judge
Hugh L. Bond of the Fourth judicial CIR
cult.
RUssIA is reported to be pushing system
atically through Asia for the annexation
of the rich mineral borders OF China. Inc
government of the lat er country is dis
patching troops to the menaced region.
1T is rumored at Washington that a new
extradition treaty has been negotiated
with Great Britain, with special reference
to Canada.
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